#i love steve blum

[felixdragonheartofficial]

What

[fcheez]

heatwave doodle cause im rewatching rescue bots and i love him

[martianbugsbunny]

U got some actors that are like 'yeah these characters sure are important to each other but I couldn't say about them potentially being a couple' and then you've got Steve Blum who is like 'no yeah they're in love, they're married, they live on Lira San together where Kallus does the gardening and Zeb does the handiwork, oh and by the way they're having mpreg babies together and the furry purple guy is carrying' rip to everybody else but he's just built different

[invinciblerodent]

That "least favorite companion" post I referenced earlier today keeps haunting me.

Because... well, it was obvious that many would say Oghren. I expected many to have said Oghren.

But it still makes me a little bit sad just how much of Oghren's depth and potential was lost by him being written as a "comic relief" character that both fell flat, and aged poorly.

I remember, the first time I played Origins when I was like 17-18, I was a bit put off by him immediately: he reminded me of people I knew in real life, and were not people I liked, or was proud to know. I was a little disappointed that I'd have to have him in my party for the last part of "Paragon of Her Kind". But that short little scene, where he first steps out under the open sky...

That scene, I still think about regularly.

The moment he casts off his caste, the last thing he still genuinely had. When he first looks up at the sky, and realizes just how vast and open it is. When he takes that step he knows would mean that he can never go back.

That tiny little scene, less than a minute long, made not just him, but my own Aeducan click for me immediately.

Because Oghren is a clear failure of the caste system. Or better said, a failure of dwarven society, really.

He's a castoff, a reject, a lost cause: a once respected warrior, a famed dwarven berserker and husband to a Paragon, who fell through the cracks because he fell out of his house's favor.

Because he got hit hard by his wife and his whole family leaving him behind. Because he got too hard to deal with, too embarrassing.

So under the carpet he went, in both his own mind and everyone else's.

Oghren's, is... an ordinary tragedy. A story of an everyday struggle for men like him (lonely, middle aged, depressed), with feelings that are quietly shoved to the side, joked about, tamped down by both him, and the people around him- and him not being “likeable”, well... isn't that just the way it usually is? People who are suffering are sometimes genuinely not good people.

And despite his best efforts, I can't bring myself to dislike him. I don't like having him in my party because I don't find him funny like he was clearly intended to be, and a lot of his dialogue, I find deeply frustrating and off-putting (in Origins and Awakening alike), but... I can't bring myself to dislike him.

I just... feel sad for him, more than anything else. Because in a few rare moments, there is loyalty. There's honor. Care. Sadness. Even humor when it's allowed to be there, beneath the very 2009 "sexual harassment is totally funny you guys".

There is a lot to talk about regarding Oghren, starting with mental health, and ending with the typical dwarven mentality being to cut ties with what they perceive to be lost causes (which also goes for Kal-Sharok, really), but... I can't shake this feeling that had he been written a few years later, with a touch slightly more careful than the ones with which he was originally handled, he could have been so much more.

..... Though I suppose there's some poetic irony in how the character who was let down by his people would also be one that was let down by his time.

[guuuhngh]

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Recently found out that Steve Blum voices Wolverine in Wolverine and the X-men, need him and Tank Dempsey at the same time. But I got mistaken and lowkey drew the wrong Wolverine, I drew the one from X-men Evolution:/ but it’s cool I still love him.

[spiritgenie]

a totally normal pterodactyl skeleton

[vodid]

earthspark's choice to cast steve blum as starscream was a deliberate move to give tfp starscream closure for his unresolved trauma as an abuse survivor change my mind

[t0ast-ghost]

EVERY TIME I start a new transformers show and look at the cast it's so beautiful that I want to cry tears of pure happiness

[tending-the-hearth]

thinking about alexsander kallus who starts off being a passionate servant to the empire and proud destroyer of lasan who has a strong mutual hatred for zeb

alexsander kallus who never really sat well with the massacre on lasan after it happened, because it was never supposed to happen that way, who starts to question things after being trapped on bahryn with zeb, who actually gets to talk with his enemy and come to a shaky, shaky truce

alexsander kallus who helps sabine escape even before he's officially fulcrum, just because he knows he owes zeb, and he knows how important sabine is to him

alexsander kallus who becomes fulcrum because he knows it's the right thing to do, because he knows that the events on lasan have happened to so many other planets, and he realizes how wrong he was, and how he's been changed

"heart of a rebel" alexsander kallus who fights against thrawn and manages to escape and becomes an unofficial spector as he gets folded into the rebels

alexsander kallus who, after feeling guilty and twisted for so long because of the lasan massacre, who has atoned for so many mistakes, who has struggled for so long to find his place, is shown to the planet where the lasat people are thriving, who is welcomed into their home, forgiven and seen as one of them

just... alexsander kallus

[kiramarien]

They did not. They. Did. Not.

I don’t know if these words were actually said in the show, but if they were I swear I’m gonna blow a circuit. (Just looked it up. They were.)

Either way this is driving me bonkers.

The reason it’s driving me crazy is that both Starscream from Transformers Prime and Heatwave from Rescue Bots were voiced by Steve Blum. Both are characters I LOVE (right now, and as a little girl) and both were played by the man, the myth, the legend himself.

Steve Blum is a real person, not a fictional character that I can gush about with no consequences, so I’ll keep this to a minimum.

but I’ve reached a point where the only thing you need to do to get me to adore a character (Evidenced with Huntsman and Mayor from Lego Monkie Kid) is to show me that they have been voiced by this man. It’s a bit of a problem. And if you watch YouTube, you’ve probably seen his ad. Imagine me perusing YouTube. Clicks on a video and moves mouse to skip the ad. Drinks water.

“Hi. I’m Steve Blum.” *Spews water all over my shirt. Lunges for the mouse to move it before it’s too late and spends the next several minutes it takes for the ad to play trying not to spontaneously combust from pure joy. …

Um… let’s just say this Transformers screenshot brought me some joy and leave it at that.

(Here is a list of characters he’s played:

Heatwave 💕

Starscream

Demon Bull King (Lego Monkie Kid)

Huntsman (Lego Monkie Kid)

Mayor [or “Not-Mayor”] (Lego Monkie Kid)

Amon (Legend of Korra)

Wolverine (pretty much every piece of animated media that includes the character)

Green Goblin (Spectacular Spider man.)

Zeb Orrelios (Star Wars Rebels)

Admiral Gable Karius (Vader Immortal)

… and on and on. The man knows how to do his job.

That picture has made my day.

And made me question all of my life choices up to this point.

[reyturnofbensolo]

SWR…Space Family…The Ghost Crew…I love them so much!

[vanlegion]

THOUGHT GAINED: PULL THE TRIGGER

I can not stress enough that the very concept of a Disco Elysium Anime done by the studio TRIGGER would be the most DISCO fucking thing on the god damn planet and I'd trust no other studio to make it. Please just THINK about how EPIC this shit would look. I'm going to draw this. Like fake frames from a movie. I'm just trying to figure out WHICH style to follow. There's Little Witch Academia, BNA, Promare, Kill La Kill, PANTY & STOCKING WITH GARTERBELT, Gurran Lagann, Dungeon Meshi and more. Though for that Psychedelic Disco sheik, I'm leaning Promare and BNA aesthetic with Kill La Kill off model humor... I've a concept on this fictitious 2 hour movie. Taking place 6 months after the game, and starts with a few minor cases happening in Jamrock while also exploring some backstory for our two detectives that results in Harry and Kim stumbling onto the concealed origins of The Pale, and the realization behind "AFTER LIFE -- DEATH; AFTER DEATH -- LIFE AGAIN. AFTER THE WORLD -- THE PALE; AFTER THE PALE -- THE WORLD AGAIN" (AKA we're talking Reincarnation, baby! This fucking Disco Dance be going on for Millions of years~) and ultimately also saving Revachol from impending explody doom which in turn saves Elysium, and breaking the cycle all while being as Homo-Erotic AS fucking possible and simultaneously giving every Studio TRIGGER vibe imaginable.

[martianbugsbunny]

Steve Blum is like one of my favorite people on the planet in case you hadn't guessed he's absolutely lovely in the way he supports the queer community and also have you seen the way he ships Kalluzeb? He's down as bad for them as we are and he absolutely will not shut up about them thank the Ashla

[extrahorribledynne]

literally dont care abt anything else missing connections was 22 minutes of tfp starscream related catharsis in an entirely different show

[nimata-beroya]

Hey Rebels fans!

Did you notice this in Episode 2×13 of TBB today?!

[arabianbeans]

How my ass is pulling up to the next steve blum meet 'n' greet function